<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I had posted a link to the new site I started a few weeks back now, it has become very popular and I am submitting site links to Google and worried that I might be sending duplicate content. the site is <a href="http://www.esp8266.com">http://www.esp8266.com</a> and its a Community Forum for a new low cost WIFI IC that has come out of Asia.<br><br></div>I think I found a mod for SEO that deals with duplicate content and changes cryptic URLS like <a href="http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19">http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19</a> into <a href="http://www.esp8266.com/compiler-chat-f9-t19">http://www.esp8266.com/compiler-chat-f9-t19</a> kind of format.<br><br></div>R.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Darcy Whyte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com" target="_blank">darcy@siteware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Does the forum have a lot of content yet or is it a future forum? Where is it if it exists? </div><div><br></div>If you want to use sitemaps you'll want to have it rendered from software.. You may want to manually tag some content as important and frequent though. Just tag them in the database. But don't change their tables. Add tables and use a foreign key to link your flags to their data.<div><br></div><div>For duplicate content, .... well you shouldn't have duplicate content much but if there are numerous URL's that have the same content (which happens), you want to use robots.txt to keep indexers out of that.</div><div><br></div><div>The robots.txt is probably worth to keep the crawlers focused but I'm not convinced a sitemap has much benefit. Forums benefit more from community management and development of content people want. The google indexer will figure that out based on the link structure that forms around it.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div><br></div><div><div>--</div><div>Darcy Whyte</div><div><br></div><div>Software Since '88 <a href="http://siteware.com" target="_blank">siteware.com</a> | Contact: <a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com" target="_blank">darcy@siteware.com</a> | <a href="tel:613-563-3634" value="+16135633634" target="_blank">613-563-3634</a> by appointment</div><div><br></div><div>Canada N 45° 25'03.1" W 75° 42'21.4"</div></div><div>Art+ <a href="http://inventorartist.com/" target="_blank">inventorArtist.com</a> | Aviation <a href="http://rubber-power.com/" target="_blank">rubber-power.com</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Richard Sloan <a href="mailto:themindfactory@gmail.com" target="_blank">themindfactory@gmail.com</a> [ORE_bits] <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ORE_bits@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">ORE_bits@yahoogroups.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


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      <p></p><p dir="ltr">I am currently running a phpbb3 forum and wonder if anyone else has experience with this code and particularly sitemaps and duplicate content?</p>
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